The beautiful Mrs Graham's body was violated, though I would have thought more in the sense more of being manhandled than anything else, as it had already travelled some distance from the south and was no doubt in a state of fairly advanced decomposition. Her Scottish husband, once a francophile, hated the French from that moment on.

As for Charlotte Corday, in order to dishonour her, certain revolutionary figures such as Chabot had her headlless body examined in order to find traces of "libertinage" but it was attested that she was a virgin, maidenhead intact.